Cardiff City beat Leicester City 1-0 at the Walkers Stadium to give them an advantage going into the second leg at the Cardiff City Stadium on Wednesday.
The match started slowly with most of the play in midfield. The first half created very little chances with Michael Chopra hitting the post from a narrow angle for Cardiff and Jay Bothroyd heading just over from 6 yards out. Leicester on the other hand didnt really create many.
The second half started much better with both teams looking to grab that vital goal. There weren’t many chances created until Cardiff were awarded a free-kick with 15 minutes to go. Up stepped Peter Wittingham from the corner of the box and swung his shot towards goal, and the ball going in off the inside of the post. Leicester seemed to kick on from this and substitute Matty Fryatt squandered a great chance as he was one-on-one with keeper David Marshall but shot straight at the keeper.
Leicester pushed on looking for the equaliser but couldn’t find the back of the net with Marshall making a great save in the final seconds of injury time.
Cardiff will now take a 1-0 lead going into the second leg on Wednesday, and will no doubt be favourites to progress to Wembley.

Whittingham gets the only goal of the game from a set piece.